ABLEconf Free Software for Free Enterprise

The ABLE conference on Saturday, October 24th finished successfully, many thanks to our volunteers and presenters who put their time and energy into building up Arizona's premiere conference on open source technology in business. The conference was well-received by attendees despite some obligatory scheduling snafus, and Arizona's diverse community of user groups and associations came together to give many people their first taste of Linux and other open source software.

TEDxPhoenix has some great speakers coming up for us Friday night. Carl Hayden High School teacher Fredi Lajvardi's robotics team won a national robotics championship. Beating a bunch of college teams was amazing. Beating them with a mere $800 budget was certainly innovative. Show up Friday night to find out :). Greg Peterson, Arizona's urban farmer, will be speaking. He has 50 fruit trees (and lots of other stuff) on his normal-sized city property. See TEDxPhoenix' speakers page for info on the other speakers.

Thanks to all of ABLEconf's sponsors!

Thugal, Two Geek Techs, RD Harris, CPA, P.C., LinuxFund and Obnosis all provided cash we used for things like free lunch for attendees, t-shirts, signs, promotional fliers, prizes and other things we needed to buy.

The Women in Technology and Business (WIT) committee has created a great track for ABLEconf Phoenix 2009.

Three of the five tracks being about security and three of the five being strong technical topics shows that there is an abundance of talent being tapped.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Arizona's Premiere Conference on Open Source Software Offers Insight on Leveraging Open Source Tools to Reduce IT Costs and Increase Flexibility in the Midst of Economic Uncertainty.

TEMPE, AZ – The ABLE conference has announced its schedule for October 24th, and features a wide variety of talks that touch on topics such as virtualization, computer security, overviews of various open source projects, and practical use of open source in a business environment. The schedule can be viewed on ABLEconf's web site.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Arizona's Premiere Conference on Open Source Software Offers Insight on Leveraging Open Source Tools to Reduce IT Costs and Increase Flexibility in the Midst of Economic Uncertainty.

TEMPE, AZ – The ABLE conference on Saturday, October 24th will feature many presentations on a wide variety of topics relating to Free/Open Source software. After a long day of talks, many of our volunteers will be gathering for ABLEconf FOSS Game Day at UAT on Sunday, October 25th from 10am – 6pm. Battle for Wesnoth and Nexuiz—both of which run on Linux, Windows, and OS X, will be featured, as well as OpenArena and Wormux/Hedgewars. Feel free to stop by and play with us!

Thanks to everyone who proposed a talk! Thanks especially to those who are travelling to town in order to speak for us. Double-especially to those needing a passport to join us!

This year's ABLEconf has a variety of great presentations. We have talks for small- and medium-sized businesses. We have talks for educational environments. We have talks on security, desktop applications and even for finding a career.

Speakers include a KDE core developer, a senior Red Hat engineer and several local stars from our community.

See you Saturday the 24th at ABLEconf.

So, after an awesome day of presentations and learning about Free Software and GNU/Linux you probably just want to go home and sleep. Right? WRONG! Sunday Oct 25 we will be having a Gaming Day where you will have the chance to frag that guy behind you who kept talking during that awesome presentation you saw, or to get back at your old buddy.

We will be meeting at UAT on Sunday morning at 10 am to partake in some Free Software gaming tournaments. We will be having various deathmatch style tournaments at the event throughout the day including:

• Nexuiz
• OpenArena

Thanks to everyone who proposed a talk! Thanks especially to those who are travelling to town in order to speak for us.

This year's ABLEconf has a variety of great presentations. We have talks for small- and medium-sized businesses. We have talks for educational environments. We have talks on security, desktop applications and even for finding a career.

Speakers include a KDE core developer, a senior Red Hat engineer and several local stars from our community.

See you Saturday the 24th at ABLEconf.

ABLEconf, Arizona's premier Open Source conference, brings together business leaders, technology companies and technology innovators. Come see how your company can reduce costs while expanding available technology through Open Source.

Saturday, October 24th at UAT in Tempe. Sessions start at 10:00 and run until 16:00. Free lunch will be provided for the first 150 attendees.

See the schedule and Women in Technology and Business (WIT) schedule for information about presentations.

Prizes will be given out throughout the day. After event party at Boulders on Broadway.